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The seven-year-old girl stood at the edge of the celebration. Around her, colors flew through the air—bright gulaal creating clouds of joy, laughter echoing off the walls, children running with abandon. It was Holi, the festival that declared all equal, all welcome, all beautiful in their colorful chaos. But she hesitated. Her skin told a different story than others'—patches of lighter and darker tones marking her with vitiligo, a condition that causes loss of skin pigmentati